tendency of women to start businesses in the service sector, which is underrepresented in the crafts. Women also tend to be … women to care for children and actively participate in the labor force at the same time. On the other, incomes are generally … lower. Women are more risk averse and tend to be more cautious in their entrepreneurial endeavors. They are more likely to …

Despite a steady increase in the number of self-employed women, the so-called gender gap has hardly diminished. Based …-induced employment breaks - which from a theoretical perspective go along with a loss of human capital - explain women's lower start …

activities. Women are relatively often and foreigners rarely represented in the start-up actvities of the service sector. …

and climate variability. These challenges include how to reduce the incidence of malaria (including the significant … challenge of resistant malaria), dengue, and other vector-borne and water-borne diseases that are likely to experience … and malaria transmitted by vectors like mosquitoes. In the context of growing financial pressure on governments due to …

This report presents findings of the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the pilot program 'Perspective of Women … supporting the re-entry of women into the labor market after a family-related absence from employment for at least three years …. Managed by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in cooperation with the German Federal …

From a social policy perspective, single parents - for the most part single mothers - are an important target group … report at hand examines employment and living conditions of single mothers, in particular of recipients of unemployment … benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II). Focusing on this group of single mothers receiving basic income support for needy jobseekers …